shoeblack
Americannoun
noun
Etymology
Origin of shoeblack
Example Sentences
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The child for friends he sad did lack, They said he was but a shoeblack, Kind hearted man the poor child bore, To a soft cot in back of store.
From Poems of James McIntyre by James McIntyre
Why, even the little shoeblack was more to him now than I was.
From My Friend Smith A Story of School and City Life by Talbot Baines Reed
He had to live like a gentleman upon this, and to give four guineas a year to the laundress, four to his barber, and two to his shoeblack.
From The English Utilitarians, Volume I. by Sir Leslie Stephen
You’re about fit for a shoeblack, sir, or a carter.
From The Vast Abyss The Story of Tom Blount, his Uncles and his Cousin Sam by George Manville Fenn
So, I daresay, you could drop down into a navigator, or a shoeblack, or something in that way, to-morrow, and think it pleasant.
From Tom Brown at Oxford by Thomas Hughes
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